Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 10:59
Modified
2025-04-03 14:40
Summary
Details

A security issue in nginx resolver was identified, which might allow an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause 1-byte memory overwrite, resulting in worker process crash or potential other impact.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "nginx",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/nginx"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.6.18"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.20.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-23017"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "A security issue in nginx resolver was identified, which might allow an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause 1-byte memory overwrite, resulting in worker process crash or potential other impact.",
  "id": "BIT-nginx-2021-23017",
  "modified": "2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:59:30.599Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2021/000300.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167720/Nginx-1.20.0-Denial-Of-Service.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r37e6b2165f7c910d8e15fd54f4697857619ad2625f56583802004009%40%3Cnotifications.apisix.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d4966221ca399ce948ef34884652265729d7d9ef8179c78d7f17e7f%40%3Cnotifications.apisix.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6fc5c57b38e93e36213e9a18c8a4e5dbd5ced1c7e57f08a1735975ba%40%3Cnotifications.apisix.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf232eecd47fdc44520192810560303073cefd684b321f85e311bad31%40%3Cnotifications.apisix.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf318aeeb4d7a3a312734780b47de83cefb7e6995da0b2cae5c28675c%40%3Cnotifications.apisix.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7SFVYHC7OXTEO4SMBWXDVK6E5IMEYMEE/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNKOP2JR5L7KCIZTJRZDCUPJTUONMC5I/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210708-0006/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12331123%2C"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23017"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0"
}


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